Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-09-17
INSTANTANEOUS LEAGt +.
Leo Hartman In New Ha,en-Ih" Meet
ing ut Central Labor Hall.

ing at Central Labor Hall.
Central Labor Hall was comfortably
well filled last Sunday with an audience
composed OF members of the Russian
American League and their friends,
mostly workingmcn who are members Of
some Labor organization. The object OF
the meeting was to agitate against the
infamous Bayard treaty with the Car,
which provides for the eXtradition of
political offenders.
A. i. Hume was the first speaker, and |
the burden of his address was that the
Russians in this country should become
American citizens in order that their agi
ton might have more practical force
He believed that public sentiment here
would not sustain Bayards treaty with
the Car.
After Leo Hartman had in short
speech in English explained the position
of the Russians with regard to the treaty,
Joseph Sheldon made an eloquent
though carefully worded address, in
which he expressed sympathy with the
Russians, and seemed to conditionally
endorse the execution Of murderous
ears.
Leo Hartman was again announced to
speak-this time in the Russian language.
The following is n synopsis of hsspeech;
"Within the last five years no less
than seventy five thousand of your coun-
trymen have been killed by the monster
who is known us the Russian Gar. OF
three thousand of my personal friends
~ | xunrLnI
in Rostov, Odessa, Moskow, st. Peters
burg, Ural, etc, all have expired their
noble souls either upon the galows, in
the dungeon or in Siberia. regret that
forgot to bring with me a letter that |
received only last week from Siberia,
My friend tells me of the condition Of
his personal friends who were sent to the
mouth of the Lena, in remote Siberia,
They are kept five i'll a shanty, have
nothing but raw meat to eat, for bread
and salt reach them only once in six
months, and that in such small quantl-
ties that it lasts hardly month. They
generally die out within two or three
months, and then five others till their
place, and it is not impossible that the
new arrivals are fed with the bodies of
their preceders This may seem to you
myth, but to those who know the con
dition of the inhabitants there, or if you
knew the person who wrote me this
you would not doubt it,
Il do not think it necessary to tel
you why those people are suffering suCl
terrors You are Russians like myself
and know, therefore, that in our nativ,
country the mere pronunciation of thu
words liberty republic, democracy
labor problem, will attract the suspicion
of the Cars servants and rs soon as yol
are suspected you are sure to end you
life upon the gallows or in Siberia which
is IA thousandtold worse than the gallows
"But my object is not to tell you tn
fate Of your countrymen who are Striv
ing for such liberty, at least, as we EMO
in this country. As have said, you ar
Russians and know all that. Let me IT
turn, then, to my principal subject
Baron Rosen, the representative of tn
Russian despot and Mr.. Clevelands See
rotary of State, Thomas +. Bayard, IateI
entered into Il conspiracy against til
liberty of the Russian and the dignity ,
the American peoples. They have con
spired to deliver every political offend,
who may become implicated inthe deaf
OF tllt tHdT lfltO titt HtlittS ol lilc huHSl
hangmen. So long as peaceful agit
ton i'll Russia is impossible, every polit
cal or social reformer in that countT
must look upon the death of the Car
the first step towards a peaceful agit
ton, and is, or will ultimately be, imp
Gated directly or indirectly in the dea
of the Gar. Consequently every Ru
sian in the United States who would he
the revolutionary movement of his cou
try must, according to the Rosen-Ba
ard treaty, be extradited. But who a
the Messrs Rosen and Bayard; \
they representatives of the Russian a
American peoples? No, no! Rosen il
representative of the Russian desp
and Bayard of the American aristocra'
We, Russian workingmen, are the OF
representatives of the Russian natl'
Let US appeal to the true representau